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Show Girls' sohool Report Lintsing,Shantung,China Sop.lO-March 29,1918. This has been an unusual year because of the presence with us of the Techou girls1 school. _, _ After having no snow in the winter and no spring rains,in the summer and fall North China was deluged with such an anxtr.t of rain that -reat stretches of territory were flooded and nuoh damage was done to property and many lives lost,causing an unheard-of amount of suffering which has kept people busy thru the winter trying in some measure to aleviate. Miss Huggins and 1 had groat difficulty in getting back from shansi Province,where we spent the summer with members of our mission stationed there,for the railroad was washed out and we had to make use of construction trains,hand-cars,etc.,besides walking many riles, Then when we oame down the canal from Techou by house-boat,we found the-water, so very high that in some places it seemed as if our boat in passing would make it spin over the edres! The banks had already broken in two places between Lintsing and Techou. which relieved the pressure somewhat,but not long after we arrived there was more rain,the water rose still higher,and then came the break in the banks at Techou resulting in the flooding of that region, mcluaing the American Board compound with all its new buildings. When the water was coming into the compound and everyone was preparing to leave,there was such confusion that no cietinite plans could be made, so the school girls ware let down out of the second story winders and sent off to their homes. Later when it was known that the school buildings could not be used again this year, it w-s decided that the school should accept the invitation which Lintsing had sent asking that the school come down here for this vear girls3 anTtea^rs! * ***"*" " " H U S g ± n S ^ d°-™ b r i n ^ S the ' L- , Yhen w e in Liaising heard of the trouble at Tecaou we were very anxious that the school should come here,for the ??C?^8SO C J ih?d a l r e a a y *een c l o s e d f o r two years and it seemed as if they should lose no more tine,out we did wonder what we would do R«V tu ] + any '^K1? i n °ur alr2aly crowded buildings. At first it was thot that we might exchange yards with the boys' school,for they had only a few scholars.but cl at was impracticable for many reasons. Then F£.ar;I e I u*>or\the l a r ^ building which was built for a .table but which has recently been changed into rooms suitable for v;oi en's studv classes,consisting of ona large central room and two rooms at each end,also large but smaller than the central one. The yard in which this gilding stands is at the west of our big vacant school yard and not i ar f ror, the wall, so by cutting a hole in our wall and putting in a door,the girls were able to use our yard for their exercise u f as our own -iris do and this uade a convenient passage from one ttT llSZ flvf ^ 0tae,, ***** r ° C r S W e r e l a ^ e e^uSh to accomodate the twenty-five girls of the Techou school,on the brick»k'anas'' and extra wooden beds,and by enclosing a small yard behind tbe bull lini- - the space being taken from the yard where the goats are kept- a place was made for the washing and drying of clothes! The furnishing for the rooms had to be borrowed from other departments of the work , |
